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Micromechanical modelling of finite deformation of thermoplastic matrix composites
The prediction of the constitutive behavior of thermoplastic matrix composites from quasi-static up to impact rates demands a detailed understanding of the behavior of the polymeric constituents of these materials; this is due to the pronounced rate dependence of the polymeric matrix. This paper is an attempt at approaching the prediction of finite deformation of thermoplastic matrix composites, using a multi-scale approach in which the fibre and the matrix are separately modelled and combined within a finite element scheme to determine the constitutive response of the test composite. A micromechanical model comprising a finite element implementation of constitutive laws for the fibre and matrix constituents are discussed. The robust formulation for predicting the behavior of the semicrystalline polymer was successfully developed, including the techniques of generating the 3D representative volume element (RVE) of composites as well as prescribing the periodic boundary conditions on the 3D RVE. Finally, the validation studies for predicting the elastic properties of the composite using the Finite Element (FE) methods and the effect of spatial arrangement of the fibre inclusions within the matrix at finite strains are illustrated
Stochastic String Motion Above and Below the World Sheet Horizon
We study the stochastic motion of a relativistic trailing string in black
hole AdS_5. The classical string solution develops a world-sheet horizon and we
determine the associated Hawking radiation spectrum. The emitted radiation
causes fluctuations on the string both above and below the world-sheet horizon.
In contrast to standard black hole physics, the fluctuations below the horizon
are causally connected with the boundary of AdS. We derive a bulk stochastic
equation of motion for the dual string and use the AdS/CFT correspondence to
determine the evolution a fast heavy quark in the strongly coupled
plasma. We find that the kinetic mass of the quark decreases by while the correlation time of world sheet
fluctuations increases by .Comment: 27 pages, 5 figures; v2 final version, small changes, references
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Hamiltonian lattice QCD at finite density: equation of state in the strong coupling limit
The equation of state of Hamiltonian lattice QCD at finite density is
examined in the strong coupling limit by constructing a solution to the
equation of motion corresponding to an effective Hamiltonian describing the
ground state of the many body system. This solution exactly diagonalizes the
Hamiltonian to second order in field operators for all densities and is used to
evaluate the vacuum energy density from which we obtain the equation of state.
We find that up to and beyond the chiral symmetry restoration density the
pressure of the quark Fermi sea can be negative indicating its mechanical
instability. Our result is in qualitative agreement with continuum models and
should be verifiable by future lattice simulations of strongly coupled QCD at
finite density.Comment: 27 pages, 6 figures. Uses ReVTeX4 and BiBTeX. Revised versio
Heavy quark in an expanding plasma in AdS/CFT
Using the Janik-Peschanski dual to a Bjorken flow, a Langevin equation is
derived for a heavy quark in an expanding N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills
plasma. Such a plasma is characterized by a proper-time dependence of the
temperature and corresponds to a system out of equilibrium. The analysis first
focuses on a quark at rest in the plasma comoving frame. The case of a quark
moving across a longitudinally expanding plasma is then considered. The
two-point functions for the random noise acting on such heavy quark probes are
computed.Comment: 17 pages. v2: references added; improved comments on the
Schwinger-Keldysh formalis
A new constitutive model for prediction of impact rates response of polypropylene
This paper proposes a new constitutive model for predicting the impact rates response of polypropylene. Impact rates, as used here, refer to strain rates greater than 1000 1/s. The model is a physically based, three-dimensional constitutive model which incorporates the contributions of the amorphous, crystalline, pseudo-amorphous and entanglement networks to the constitutive response of polypropylene. The model mathematics is based on the well-known Glass-Rubber model originally developed for glassy polymers but the arguments have herein been extended to semi-crystalline polymers. In order to predict the impact rates behaviour of polypropylene, the model exploits the well-known framework of multiple processes yielding of polymers. This work argues that two dominant viscoelastic relaxation processes – the alpha- and beta-processes – can be associated with the yield responses of polypropylene observed at low-rate-dominant and impact-rates dominant loading regimes. Compression test data on polypropylene have been used to validate the model. The study has found that the model predicts quite well the experimentally observed nonlinear rate-dependent impact response of polypropylene
Bosonization and Duality in Arbitrary Dimensions: New Results
A generic massive Thirring Model in three space-time dimensions exhibits a
correspondence with a topologically massive bosonized gauge action associated
to a self-duality constraint, and we write down a general expression for this
relationship.
We also generalize this structure to dimensions, by adopting the
so-called doublet approach, recently introduced. In particular, a non-
conventional formulation of the bosonization technique in higher dimensions (in
the spirit of ), is proposed and, as an application, we show how fermionic
(Thirring-like) representations for bosonic topologically massive models in
four dimensions may be built up.Comment: Revised version, to appear in Phys. Rev.
CBNA: a control theory based method for identifying coding and non-coding cancer drivers
A key task in cancer genomics research is to identify cancer driver genes. As these genes initialise and progress cancer, understanding them is critical in designing effective cancer interventions. Although there are several methods developed to discover cancer drivers, most of them only identify coding drivers. However, non-coding RNAs can regulate driver mutations to develop cancer. Hence, novel methods are required to reveal both coding and non-coding cancer drivers. In this paper, we develop a novel framework named Controllability based Biological Network Analysis (CBNA) to uncover coding and non-coding cancer drivers (i.e. miRNA cancer drivers). CBNA integrates different genomic data types, including gene expression, gene network, mutation data, and contains a two-stage process: (1) Building a network for a condition (e.g. cancer condition) and (2) Identifying drivers. The application of CBNA to the BRCA dataset demonstrates that it is more effective than the existing methods in detecting coding cancer drivers. In addition, CBNA also predicts 17 miRNA drivers for breast cancer. Some of these predicted miRNA drivers have been validated by literature and the rest can be good candidates for wet-lab validation. We further use CBNA to detect subtype-specific cancer drivers and several predicted drivers have been confirmed to be related to breast cancer subtypes. Another application of CBNA is to discover epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) drivers. Of the predicted EMT drivers, 7 coding and 6 miRNA drivers are in the known EMT gene lists.Vu V. H. Pham, Lin Liu, Cameron P. Bracken, Gregory J. Goodall, Qi Long, Jiuyong Li, Thuc D. L
Nonlinear electrodynamics of p-wave superconductors
We consider the Maxwell-London electrodynamics of three dimensional
superconductors in p-wave pairing states with nodal points or lines in the
energy gap. The current-velocity relation is then nonlinear in the applied
field, cubic for point nodes and quadratic for lines. We obtain explicit
angular and depth dependent expressions for measurable quantities such as the
transverse magnetic moment, and associated torque. These dependences are
different for point and line nodes and can be used to distinguish between
different order parameters. We discuss the experimental feasibility of this
method, and bring forth its advantages, as well as limitations that might be
present.Comment: Fourteen pages RevTex plus four postscript figure
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